coming up for air...snippets and glimpses of this and that along the way...
Trying to keep a positive forward motion going in a sometimes not so positive world. I tinker with a variety of arts and crafts...and love most especially to spend time with family and friends.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

a definition

i know...2 posts in one day....amazing isn't it.but i had something i wanted to share and was afraid i'd forget later....or decide not to post. anyway......did you know that live, according to webster, is a verb? no real surprise there i don't think. and if you remember all the way back to elementary school, the first definition listed is the one most commonly used. for some reason today, i've been thinking about the phrase "to live". partly because a good friend is about to go on her Grand Adventure. partly because i am in the process of planning one of those myself, i do believe. perhaps not quite so grand, but an adventure nonetheless. and partly because for some unknown reason i feel very mellow today. anyway...back to the definition.the primary definition for live is this: to have life; not to be dead. now you can have life..and not be dead....just sitting doing nothing but taking up space. or....you can embrace it as in this quote from helen keller. "life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." live is a verb. to have something, to have life, means to embrace it...to actually reach out and grasp it and do something with it. it is a verb, which necessitates action. life is the important thing that happens from the time of your beginning to the time of your end. it is the story of you. some of the chapters were pre-determined, yes. but not all of them. you are the one constant thing....in your actions and reactions, in all of it, you are the main character. it is being written every minute of every day...and you owe it to yourself to do just as it says in webster's: to have life; not to be dead. life is all about action. do something with yours.

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My Lovelies

I tinker with wire and beads and many other fun things to create a variety of lovelies.

Really good thoughts

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. -Shel SilversteinThe secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."

-Thucydides

" I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." -E.B.White

"Faith is not a dirty word. And hope is not for fools."

-Robert Downey. Jr.

"You are an extraordinary woman, how can you expect to live an ordinary life?"

- Louisa May Alcott

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."

-Confucious

"The challenge is not to win but to conquer the fear. It's not the other people you have to beat, it's yourself."

-Anonymous

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

-Albert Einstein

Blessings

having dreams...and going after them

all the colors of fall

The mountains....and the ocean

time

forgiveness

hot tea and a fire in the fireplace...or sweet iced tea (with lemon, of course!) and a rocking chair on the porch

Chick-Fil-A and Krispy Kreme

chocolate!

flowers...the first ones...those first little bursts of color that tell you it will soon be spring...and then all the others...that ocean of color!